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November 20, 2015 Trae Dorn Nerd & Tie Expo

Nerd & Tie Expo Preregistration Now Open

Just making a quick post to say that Preregistration is now open for the Nerd & Tie Expo.

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November 20, 2015 Trae Dorn Midnight Special, trailer

The ‘Midnight Special’ Trailer Shows Us a Different Kind of Superhero Film

We’ve been living in a renaissance of Superhero films these last few years, but Jeff Nichols’s Midnight Special puts a

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November 19, 2015 Trae Dorn AlterniCon, Con Scene, Conventions

AlterniCon 2015 Cancelled Less Than Two Days Before Event

So the staff of AlterniCon 2015 haven’t been having a good week. Yesterday organizers announced the Boston based event had

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November 19, 2015 Trae Dorn Episode VII, humor, Star Wars, sweded, The Force Awakens

This Sweded ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Trailer is AMAZING

Look, we are in the middle of an all out blitz of Star Wars: The Force Awakens advertising. It’d be

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November 19, 2015 Trae Dorn Cat's Cradle, FX, Kurt Vonnegut, Noah Hawley

Kurt Vonnegut’s “Cat’s Cradle” TV Adaptation in Development

Deadline is reporting that an adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s 1963 novel Cat’s Cradle is in development at FX. The book

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November 18, 2015 Trae Dorn snow white and the huntsman, the huntsman, The Huntsman: Winter's War, trailer

“The Huntsman: Winter’s War” Trailer is Here

We were surprised when the follow up to Snow White and the Huntsman was announced last year as a prequel

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November 18, 2015 Trae Dorn Batman, Brian Azzarello, DC, Frank Miller, The Dark Knight 3, The Dark Knight 4, The Dark Knight Returns

Frank Miller Wants to Write ‘Dark Knight 4’ After Pretty Much Sitting Out ‘Master Race’

So when The Dark Knight III: Master Race was announced, most of us thought “well that sounds exactly like what

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November 18, 2015 Trae Dorn Gods of Egypt, trailer

So Wow, this ‘Gods of Egypt’ Trailer Sure is Full of White People

Look, I may not be the world’s foremost authority on history, geography, or mythology, but I seem to recall Egypt

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November 17, 2015 Bryan 'Arcemise' Novak DC, FOX, Gotham, recap

Gotham Recap: “Rise of the Villains: A Bitter Pill to Swallow” (S2E09)

Welcome to the Gotham Globe Times! Your weekly, unconventional recap of (and commentary on) the wonderful and magical world of

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There’s an annoying thing in the witchcraft community where every new idea or trend gets cast as an “ancient” practice even if it’s just a few years old. Time and time again, we see people constructing false narratives about the supposed historicity of ideas, spells, and rituals in witchcraft spaces, and all of it is bad for us. Why do people feel the need to lie? Why does something being a new idea make it less credible in people’s eyes? Why have we been doing this as a community from the start?

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